"Howlett and Son, printers ... Soho"--Verso of t.p

Plates drawn by E. Lear, J.D.C. Sowerby, and Zeitter, and engraved by T. Landseer and Zeitter; maps drawn and coloured by Lieut. E. Belcher

The adjusted page count includes pages numbered 9* through 13*, inserted as "Additional observations" after the Mammalia section

Hand-colored ill

Plates accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets

Introduction [by F.W. Beechey]--Mammalia, by J. Richardson.--Ornithology, by N.A. Vigors.--Fishes, by G.T. Lay, and E.T. Bennett.--Crustacea, by R. Owen.--Reptiles, by J.E. Gray.--Batrachians, by J.E. Gray.--Molluscous animals, and their shells, by J.E. Gray [and G.B. Sowerby]--Geology [ed. by W. Buckland, from the notes of Lieut. Belcher and of Mr. A. Collie]

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

BM (Nat. hist.)

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SCNHRB has two copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088006768683) has stamp on p. [v]: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun. 11, 1900; accession no. 167411

SCNHRB c. 1 has a few pencil markings and annotations throughout

SCNHRB c. 1 has the publisher's blind-stamped green embossed cloth binding; the spine cover is wanting

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088010284032) has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library; with his stamp on t.p

SCNHRB c. 2 has an offprint from The veliger, v. 10, no. 4 (Apr. 1968), p. 350-352, "Itinerary of the voyage of H.M.S. Blossom, 1825-1828" by Joseph Rosewater, inserted at the front of the volume. A printed bookseller's catalog citation for this ed. of Beechey is mounted on the verso of the first page of the offprint

SCNHRB c. 2 has some pencil annotations and markings throughout; the pages and plates are slightly cropped, with some loss of text (primarily plate numbering)

SCNHRB c. 2 has a modern brown embossed cloth library binding with gilt-lettered spine; the preliminary leaves have been reinforced with transparent sheets of paper

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